| Biggest
Ever Pot Limit Hold'em Prize of €250,000 For The Winner As Poker's
Popularity Continues to Spread
The Gaming Club, part of
Belle Rock Gaming and one of the world’s leading online casino and poker
rooms owned by Carmen Media in conjunction with Las-Vegas-Casinos, announces
its sponsorship of The World Poker Championship in a two year deal. The deal
is the largest poker sponsorship deal ever made in Europe and is worth in
excess of one million Euros. Starting with the 2004 tournament, the event
will take place in Dublin, Eire, over 23rd – 27th June and will be broadcast
as a ten part television series on Sky Sports later in the year.
To be called The Gaming Club World Poker Championship, the tournament will
see the cream of the world’s poker professionals, including 9 times World
Series Champion Phil Hellmuth, 2004 British Open champion Dave ‘Devilfish’
Ulliott, The Hendon Mob and Europe’s leading female poker player Lucy Rokach
pitting their skills against a hungry new breed of challengers from all over
the world. The Gaming Club World Poker Championship has a biggest ever first
prize in land-based Pot Limit Holdem – seen by many as the most skilful
variation of poker - of €250,000 and a massive total prize fund of over
€730,000, based on a maximum of 128 players.
The tournament format and payout structure has been devised by international
poker legend and two-time World Series Champion Mel Judah, who is tournament
director. 128 players will be split into a series of two-table heats
consisting of eight players per table, with the eventual winner of each
16-man heat going through to the final. The eight runners up will then
contest a semi final to join the winners at a nine-man final table for the
chance to bag the €250,000 top prize. Every player who reaches the semi
final will be in the money under the pay out structure, meaning one in eight
entrants will walk away richer!
Carmen Media CEO and Chairman, Tim Johnson commented on behalf of
Las-Vegas-Casinos: “Our customers are playing more and more poker online,
and so sponsorship of the World Poker Championship by the Gaming Club gives
us the opportunity to offer them something really special. The prizes and
the competition will be world beating, and those who can’t make it to Dublin
– either as players of spectators – will be able to share in the excitement
by watching it on the Sky Sports television coverage.”
Las-Vegas-Casinos offers online poker and other entertainment and gaming
from the comfort of home. |
